I'm sure most of audio enthusiasts neither need, know, or use Vorbis, but all new "high quality" players I'm seeing these days support ogg Vorbis, more than the past. (but Creative, Microsoft and Apple, of course)

It seems Vorbis support is almost mandatory to differentiate your product if you don't have a large user base, high marketing budget, and you don't want to produce extremely cheap low-quality players.

It seems Vorbis support is almost mandatory to differentiate your product if you don't have a large user base, high marketing budget, and you don't want to produce extremely cheap low-quality players.

Am I wrong?

Yes. If you want differentiation, it's much easier and cheaper to create a different, compelling design than adapting and optimizing Tremor to work on your hardware platform (unlike MP3 and WMA, you usually don't find highly optimized Vorbis libraries from the chip vendors themselves).

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